Industrialisation and Development
What is Industrialisation? Industrialisation is where a country moves from an economy dominated by agricultural output and employment to one […]
What is Industrialisation? Industrialisation is where a country moves from an economy dominated by agricultural output and employment to one […]
Official Development Aid is aid from governments, which can take the form of either bilateral aid – direct from donor
Dependency theorists argue poor countries are often dependent on low value primary products for export, which the West then adds value to!
The New Rulers of the World (2001) by John Pilger provides a good example of a Dependency Theory analysis of the
Core countries exploit those on the periphery in a global economic system.
The plan below is just one suggestion as to how you might go about answering this essay. Briefly introduce Dependency
Dependency Theorists argue that rich countries accumulated their wealth through exploiting poorer countries. Initially this was through colonialism and slavery, later on through neo-colonialism. To develop, poorer countries need to break free from these exploitative relations.